home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!ficc!peter
- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Taken delivery of an old PC... now what?
- Message-ID: <id.WRXS.XZ6@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <25393@castle.ed.ac.uk> <wiegand.715378282@lido16>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:45:30 GMT
- Lines: 21
-
- In article <wiegand.715378282@lido16> motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net writes:
- > >next card is marked "Addram Plus" and also has a 9pin and a 25pin
- > >socket. I assume that these are serial ports of some kind, but the card
-
- > Probibly serial (9 pin) and parallel (25 pin).
-
- Probably 2 serial of they've got a video/parallel port already.
-
- > Generally - It sounds like you have a nifty antique which is almost
- > useless as a real computer. Fixing it up to something more powerfull
- > would cost about the same as just buying a new computer.
-
- If the power supply can hack it, you can get a new motherboard for $80-$100
- with a 286 (minimally useful). A GOOD power supply would be another $80 or so.
- The serial and parallal/mono cards are probably $20 each new. You can upgrade
- step by step pretty easily.
- --
- Peter da Silva `-_-'
- $ EDIT/TECO LOVE 'U`
- %TECO-W-OLDJOKE Not war? Have you hugged your wolf today?
- Ferranti Intl. Ctls. Corp. Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012 +1 713 274 5180
-